Person    | Male  Born 28/1/1904  Died 18/9/1940

James Samuel Spratt

Categories: Emergency Services

War dead non-military, WW2 i

Commemorated on a memorial as being a civilian who was killed in WW2. Includes mercantile marines and emergency services personnel.

James Samuel Spratt

Member of the ARP/Civil Defence Services - auxiliary ambulance driver.

Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research: James Samuel Spratt was born on 28 January 1904 in Poplar, a son of James Charles Spratt and Margaret Ann Spratt, née Griggs. His father was a dock labourer. He was baptised on 16 February 1904 at St John's Church, Cubitt Town and the family were recorded as living at 5 Judkin Street, Poplar. 

The 1911 census shows him and his family living at 49 Prestons Road, Poplar. Electoral registers from 1925 show him living with his parents at 10 Naval Row (North), Poplar. 

In 1928 he married Freda Bell Teasdale (1905-1962) in Poplar. The 1939 England and Wales Register shows him living at 14 Schooner Street, Poplar, and that his occupation was a Bus Conductor. He was a driver in the London Auxiliary Ambulance Service and died, aged 36 years, on 18 September 1940 when a high explosive bomb fell on Saunders Ness Road School, Isle of Dogs, London, E.14, that was being used as Auxiliary Fire Service Sub Station No.35U. He was buried on 23 September 1940 in the City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery, Southern Grove, London, E3 4PX. He is also commemorated in the Civilian War Dead Roll of Honour, located near St. George's Chapel in Westminster Abbey.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
James Samuel Spratt

Commemorated ati

Cubitt Town School air raid

{Beneath the AFS symbol:} In memory of auxiliary firewomen Joan Fanny Bartlet...

Read More

Other Subjects

PC Walter C. Choat

PC Walter C. Choat

Aged 34, killed by a burglary gang fighting their way out of a building in Cutler Street.

Person, Emergency Services, Tragedy

1 memorial
Fireman William Bernard Moore
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
British Transport Police

British Transport Police

A national special police force that polices the railway network of England, Wales and Scotland. The force polices more than 10,000 miles of track and more than 3,000 stations and depots - tasked w...

Group, Emergency Services, Transport

1 memorial
Pageants Wharf fire station

Pageants Wharf fire station

In its time, it was one of the busiest fire stations in London. Fires frequently broke out in the nearby wharves, and during the Blitz, the station attended many fires following bomb attacks. It ha...

Building, Emergency Services, Property

1 memorial
Stanley George Du Vergier

Stanley George Du Vergier

Auxiliary fireman killed in the bomb attack on Henry Cavendish School, Balham. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out further research: Auxiliary Fireman Stanley George Du Vergier was born in 1912 an...

Person, Emergency Services

War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial